Embarrassingly I don’t know how to do that scientifically. I can tell you 
latency of the storage system which at a very simplistic snapshot is averaging 
around 2ms. We are not using SSD for metadata but 10K SAS.

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The filesystem I'm working with has about 100M files and 80Tb of data.

What kind of metadata latency do you observe?
I did a mmdiag --iohist and filtered out all of the md devices and averaged 
over reads and writes.  I'm seeing ~.28ms on a one off dump.  The pure array 
which we have is 10G iscsi connected and is reporting average .25ms.

On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 6:47 AM, Sobey, Richard A 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
We’re also snapshotting 4 times a day. Filesystem isn’t tremendously busy at 
all but we’re creating snaps for each fileset.

[root@cesnode tmp]# mmlssnapshot gpfs | wc -l
6916

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I found this link and it didn't give me much hope for doing snapshots & backup 
in a home(busy) filesystem:
http://www.spectrumscale.org/pipermail/gpfsug-discuss/2013-February/000200.html
I realize this is dated and I wondered if qos etc have made is a tolerable 
thing to do now.  Gpfs I think was barely above v3.5 in mid 2013.

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